because bodies on the line india's biggest on earth but the industry's stunt performers are unknown and undefined when i won a state than men and women risking it all for the brought lots of dollars on how jazeera you're. 0. hello there i'm the star and this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes reports from hong kong say beijing is set to impose sweeping new security laws and response to the mass protests over the past year. are rising death toll that these 84 people have now been killed after a powerful psycho and smashes into bangladesh and india's east coast. oil and

venezuela shipments from iran are on the way but there's the threat of a showdown with the u.s. . and the drive to attract tourists back to one of the world's most visited cities there are safety concerns. and sport the head of cattle is world cup organizing committee values to keep the event affordable for found us and all the while he says not pricing out supporters has become more important due to the economic impact of coronavirus. now there are reports that the chinese government plans to introduce national security laws in hong kong following months of mass protests against beijing there and this all comes as china's biggest political gathering of the kicks off in beijing the opening session of the top political advisory body comes

a day ahead of the national people's congress for more on this let's cross live now to our correspondent katrina you she's in beijing katrina this is a hugely controversial legislation remember back in 2003 the last time it was on the table it brought a 1000000 people onto the streets of hong kong and then china backed off so why are we seeing this now. well basically you know hong kong's basic law which is like hong kong has many constitution it really should be a hong kong legislators introducing any kind of national security law but precisely because of the kind of protests that you mentioned that happened in 2003 this law hasn't been passed by the legislators in hong kong so what we're hearing reports that beijing is going to take matters into its are in hand so according to hong kong media. china's leaders are going to introduce a draft legislation that's going to ban secession foreign interference and any

attempt to topple the central government and this is really going to happen through a kind of legal back door where beijing can introduce an annexation or an amendment to this basic local situation apparently they've seen fit because of the conditions in hong kong right now they say that it's not going to be introduced by lawmakers in hong kong itself and these protests that have been taken taking place in all these pro-democracy protests which have been getting a louder have been quite steady even throughout the current virus crisis and have turned sometimes violent have been extremely humiliating for beijing beijing has said that it causes chaos and instability and is bad for the hong kong people and hong kong's economy but it also irks beijing and is extremely bad for beijing's public image for the externally with the international community but also internally for the chinese people this is obviously a very trying time for beijing katrina what else can we expect during that congress

tomorrow. while this congress is taking place during the unprecedented time we've talked to so many analysts about this and they all agree that never before have chinese leaders face soren many difficulties and challenges they've got challenges to its leadership in hong kong taiwan the president there when saying that she's refusing to implement one country 2 systems and lots of internal and external pressure the international community is really knocking on chinese china's door asking what happened with the pandemic why didn't it do more and internally the chinese people are really concerned about the economy it's slowing rising unemployment is increasingly are problem and the coronavirus domestically is yet to come completely under control so a lot of different topics will be discussed over the next few days and certainly many changes of the hong kong war will just be one and probably of many and with

lots of in-depth coverage of that here on al-jazeera thank you very much katrina you're in beijing. now on to some other news and cleanup operations have begun in india and bangladesh after the most powerful cyclon to hit the bay of bengal in 20 years psycho on porn killed at least 84 people and destroyed thousands of homes there are now concerns about the spread of coronavirus and emergency shelters where millions of people sought safety india correspondent elizabeth purana reports from new delhi. that i may shell as a father in mourning his 13 year old daughter much me died when parts of the home collapsed on her during cycling on wednesday after. she was in class when at a good school she told me dad i want to study close by to start you know she was so good at her school work and love to draw. much me was one of dozens of people

killed in the state of west bengal where i am pan made landfall with wind speeds of 165 kilometers an hour the cycloid tore through west bengal and neighboring odysseus' state uprooting trees destroying homes vehicles and much else in its path in the city of call cutter people affects the damage after the storm passed also brought hours of heavy rain flooded neighborhoods. thousands of homes were also flattened by the day. when the storm started we managed to reach the cycling center now our home is not there anymore it's gone we're going back to see what we can salvage. millions remain without power and. people in the densely populated low lying areas around the bay of bengal are used to cyclons but emergency workers say the aftermath of will be harder to manage as they try to stop the spread of the corona virus. 650000 people were evacuated to emergency shelters

in west bengal the no dysart 2000000 in bangor think maybe. there are too many people here it's impossible to maintain social distancing i'm very concerned we couldn't stay at home because of the storm and here we are worried about corona i'm just trying to dodge both and with communication lines cut all their concerns about the extent of the damage in hard to reach areas including the ecologically fragile so there bonds mangroves region home to many rare animals including endangered bengal tigers elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. let's get more on the situation on the ground now from premier roger and she is live for us and kolkata premier only one made landfall not far from where you are right now talk us through the damage that you've been seeing. 1st program has seen as massive and something which chief minister month about and. she defines the says something that

she's never seen in many many years before this bangle was witness to cycling i love which was in 2009 but it was not at this you know magnitude the kind of devastation that bengal has seen right now and what is also something which is already linked for the sake of ministration is what was anticipated was that some districts would be affected but the cycle has affected many more districts which means a lot more work for the state administration to do and also the kind of areas they need to teach to assess the situation before restoration work can begin there are fallen trees on the roads there are low lying that are that have collapsed in various houses and buildings and that is something which a lot of people have to grapple with apart from the state administration let's not forget that the good will not rightists up and the mic is also something that the state administration is grappling with having close to 3000 cases and a little over 100 deaths due to the good old of light as the chief minister said

that due to the cycle in the last 72 deaths that have been reported from breast the goal so that is what it was then god has to deal with not just the the going on of our to spend a big but also the aftermath of the cycle or back to and of course prime as you are saying india is also still under current a virus lockdown is that hampering the response here to the storm. absolutely the lockdown is hampering rescue operations because there is not too much transport that one would see as compared to any other given time there are people not able to reach a particular place if they want to even if there are workers in the state administration who might want to come out they're not able to do so because of the lockdown so there are many challenges that the state of mistreated us face however the cork of the month will corp and other civic authorities are doing their best to clear the trees and other areas which are cut off and try to see what they can do to get the state back to normalcy even as many parts of the state are still reeling

under power cuts back to premiere rajaram there for us in kolkata thank you very much pamela wanted to take you back now to our top story china's reported plans to introduce national security laws in hong kong but right now we can speak to emily lau she is the chairwoman of the international affairs committee for hong kong's democratic party and she joins us from hong kong emily let me start by asking you for your reaction to this legislation possibly being tabled. well actually i don't think anything has been concerned or now just yet i think in the media in beijing discussing it and so we haven't got the excess. of the law or anything but surely with the people here are very very. very alarmed and very disturbed because this is such legislation would take away our freedoms would take away the personal safety and the rule of law and legal are very very nervous indeed so emily

let me ask you then how it could impact hong kong's autonomy i mean i see that there's the possibility that it wouldn't even have to go through hong kong's local legislature. exactly that's what we have heard it because the fear that there is so much really by straying and saw irish clashes in the legislature david they tried to push some of these through there it could take a long time so this thing the bridge just do it and forced it on us but this is terrible if you want to do it negligence lation affecting the freedoms and safety the rule of law certainly is up to our legislature to do the job and that's exactly what is said in the basic law which is our meaning the constitution promulgated by beijing it says we should legislate on how old but now it seems they have breaking up all the promises and they want to legislate for artists and i can hear the anger

there in your voice do you think that if other people in hong kong feel the same way as year that we are going to see hundreds of thousands of people out on the streets again as we saw back in 2003 exactly but of course right now we also have the. damage the virus here so people are not supposed to gather in big numbers but once when that pandemic subsides i think many people would turn 6 out but not this time around maybe they will use the law to arrest us even though all these peaceful demonstrations but i can tell you the how can people will not be intimidated we're not going to be suppressed but we're not fighting a revolution we're not trying to hold what's wrong with the chinese communist party we just fought world communist government to keep the promise of giving all call a high degree of autonomy but it seems they are just really needy not me. emily i

see that hong kong legislative elections are also coming up later this year is there a fear that this will affect how that plays out. well you say really because because in the last year people have been so angry initially with the introduction of the extradition bill which seems to be going to mainland china for trial and then you have seen months of protests over a 1000 people many of them young people have been arrested and the police brutality has not been polished not one single release of this up has been arrested so people are very angry and so when they were district council election in november last year the pendennis carets they won most of the seats and now again in september this year with the legislative council election or though this is not a very democratic election even then the people feel that you know many voters will

come out and choose the pen democrats but beijing has indicated that they will not tolerate it they will not allow it so they would get all kinds of be extreme measures to make sure it does not happen including maybe the solving the council if that should happen there will be many democrats there it will just dissolve any of this is hugely controversial legislation and obviously beijing is going through a very trying time itself why do you think they're considering introducing this now why now. well some people say that because of the pandemic beijing views many countries which used to be supportive of hong kong and they're now to busy with their own hands crisis so they will not want to see a time to look at hong kong and seoul is this chinese expression when there's

a fire they will come in and kill and hoping that nobody will notice it is really very bad but i hope the international community you will care because they have many many internet many foreign citizens living here there are many americans. here nadya's they are not thinking what do you so it's a very international city so if something still bombed delhi happened i hope the international community would tell your child to do so it certainly will can something will continue watching very closely indeed emily lau there the chairwoman of the international affairs committee for hong kong's democratic party thank you for joining us on al-jazeera thank you. now another 2400000 people have filed for unemployment benefits in the u.s. this week but labor department says more than 38000000 people have now lost their jobs since cabs were imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus back in march

but we can now speak to our white house correspondent can be how it can be i see these numbers are less than last week but these are still historic numbers. yeah and we're ticking towards that $40000000.00 mark which certainly is a substantial benchmark that this white house is trying to avoid but now is acknowledging that it will be almost inevitable the treasury secretary steve minucci this week saying that things are going to get worse before they're going to get better that means well the number of jobs claims filed from this week to last was less the number cumulatively is continuing to climb and that is not good news especially for a president that was celebrating 50 year lows in terms of those job numbers and now has to come up with a plan to bring them back now what we're learning from these job losses is that many people believed at least according to one poll 78 percent of americans assumed

these job losses would be temporary in other words that they would come back quickly as the economy reopened what we're now seeing what we're acknowledging in this poll at least is that half of those jobs will be permanent job losses and the other thing that this these numbers are not telling us. americans are feeling is the fact that those that did keep their jobs in many cases their wages have been cut in order to preserve their position so in terms of the impact on the american public from coronavirus setting in it's even broader than these numbers are indicating so this is the challenge for the u.s. president he's headed to the battleground state of michigan today he'll be visiting a ford motor plant this is a plant that has been converted for making cars into making ventilators he'll be trying to put a positive spin on this saying that the economy is turning back on that's why these numbers are lower this week to last but there's no question there's a challenge here and particularly in this state where african-americans have been particularly hard hit from coronavirus and also these job losses losses he'll be

under a lot of pressure to come up with some answers house correspondent candy how can that thanks very much committee while some small businesses in the u.s. are finding a way to survive these economic conditions described as the west since the great depression correspondent barbara starr reports from a new chassis. at montclair book center rows of every book imaginable from the new title just published to that dusty an obscure old book if you look hard enough you'll probably find it here what you won't find is customers browsing the aisles in march all non-essential businesses were closed because of coronavirus the bookstore staff faced hard decisions closed down after 35 years in business or find a way to keep selling nobody wanted to close. we just had to figure out the best way to keep everybody safe and healthy while also continuing to serve our customer

base. they ramped up taking orders by phone and also online sales and business has been so good nobody has been laid off everybody in fact is busy in a normal week when it was when we were open. we'd maybe have 10 internet or 10 online orders a day but now we come in and we have at least 50 if we have anything under under 50 that's it that's a light day for us this boy by the front door stacks of packages of books waiting to be shipped out to customers a small sign of a success story in an economy where there have been few when many people think about business in america they think of big companies such as general motors apple or maybe even wal-mart but truth be told more than 95 percent of americans work at small businesses like this defined as those with less than $500.00 employees it's

small business that is the backbone of the american economy that small business that has been decimated by coronavirus montclair bookstore sits in the middle of 2 other stores going through much harder times on one side a hair salon that remains closed on the other side a gift shop also shuttered but in between one store that has made it writing its own story of success gabriel's andu al-jazeera montclair new jersey. turkey is warning of grave consequences of the forces loyal to libyan war old cliff that have to said their planes will target ankara's interests in that country the foreign ministry said any attack would result in half to us forces being considered legitimate targets turkey has deployed forces to libya to support have to rival that's the un recognized government in tripoli has been conducting

a campaign aimed at seizing control of the capital and the libyan government has taken the strategic town of sabah the town was handed over after negotiations with forces loyal to hafta is a key supply line for have to us troops government forces have been conducting a major campaign in the west of libya in the past week they've captured a major airbase there along with a number of towns now a new standoff could be brewing between the united states iran and venezuela over a shipment of millions of dollars worth of fuel 5 iranian tankers are just days away from arriving in venezuela to help to ease petrol shortages there venezuela's own oil refining industry has collapsed because of sanctions as well as mismanagement alexia bryan reports in the venezuelan capital caracas the queue at the petrol station can last for days or the non-portable and we're going to get this is the richest country in the world and we should not be like this

because the is well there is oil there is everything. the shortages have plagued venezuela for years ever since its 1300000 barrel a day refining network collapsed which critics blame on under-investment and mismanagement by the state oil company now president nicolas maduro has turned to iran for help for fuel itself and chemicals to help get the oil industry back on track. those 5 ships are bringing gasoline regarding the technical support for the reactivation of the refinery what the venezuelan government asked us for in the past weeks was to bring input materials catalysts which iran brought through the planes ship tracking shows the 1st of the 5 tankers left the iranian port city of banda roberson match the 1st tanker fortune is expected to arrive in venezuela in the next few days. iran is a longtime ally of venezuela and fellow rival of the united states both countries

oil does are weedy under u.s. sanctions the white house says it's considering how to respond to the shipment this would be an example of the iranian regime taking the wealth of the iranian people and wasting it in venezuela on the door of the u.s. is one of more than 60 countries trying to push nicolas maduro from power recognize an opposition leader one go i don't know as president a force of u.s. vessels including navy destroyers patrol the caribbean on what u.s. officials say is an anti drug mission venezuela sees the vessels as a threat and is sending its own military to a score the iranian tankers through its territory in case. it would constitute an actual mission. and that. the whole.

but analysts say a conflict is unlikely but nobody in washington wants it war her or any sort of conflict with iran over been this way in the current circumstances so although the u.s. commander in chief of the southern command has expressed concern over this and washington is clearly watching it closely i think in the current circumstances that probably going to be. the extent of venezuela and iran say the trade is a win win for both countries iran got much needed gold venezuela the oil and both got to send a message to the united states alexia brian el jazeera well let's now speak to cornelia mayer she's an oil and gas economist and also c.e.o. of maoris or she joins us now from in switzerland canadia let's start with venezuela's oil sector we've seen the level of desperation there queues at petrol stations how did venezuela get to. well venezuela bad

catastrophic mismanagement of its oil sector of its economy and by catastrophic investment you know better there's are some 20 years ago was steep poster child of what a well run national oil company was like now it is the poster child of what a badly run company oil company or anything is like so we got here by mismanagement we also got here obviously by sanctions because the us is sanctions against many as well as against iran and that was we all know my enemy's enemy is my friend that's one thing and when israel. and other have for a long time played least 10 years or so been allies within opec within the 13 opec nations sort of clustering together against the sort of more

pragmatic saudi you weigh your lions well given that venezuela and iran have been such close allies for such a long time why hasn't this happened before why hasn't iran sent before this. well you know iran needs its own oil and iran is actually when it comes to refining capacity it is woefully below where we'd ought to be and you've seen these shipments are gasoline shipments so reinhold may have a case i mean you are taking this out of iran and putting it into venezuela so we are we we are we are where we are and also let's not forget then it's well up east the country with the largest the largest oil reserves on planet earth so if anything this is just a sign of how badly mismanaged divinest well in ireland the story is and i would agree with the commentator in your previous clip who said there's not much there's

going to be a lot of grandstanding a lot of words but there will be no action because right now we're in a different space in a different time and corona you know the corona pandemic is what is preoccupies everybody's thoughts so cornelli i understand that iran is also selling oil to other countries too given the sanctions how's it managing to do that. but it's moving to do that in by 2 arrangements you know what the sanctions are against the dollar so if you have by 2 arrangement speed like was going as well against gold very big with china against other things if you can buy turkey you can still do that and then there are you know there are companies especially in china who are not too fussed about the about the u.s. sanctions they're also india needs a certain amount of iranian oil because it's heavy crude and indian refineries are

geared towards heavy crude so take it can't just be substituted against light sweet crude oil from the u.s. or other places so there will always be way around sanctions but iran is selling a lot a lot less oil than it was before dissensions were imports in post. there and oil and gas economist always good to get your insights canadian out of there thank you so much better. well it is now time for the weather and here's johnny with more news of yet which is the latest way because it's not really done just yet you're talking about it is still something to really watch very closely this is a satellite you can see here still a lot of cloud across the entire region now what we have lost of course is the actual circulation in the longer looks like a tropical cyclone but it will continue to produce some very heavy amounts of rain you can see even the we'll see some clear skies across northern sections of bangladesh also areas of west bengal but this is

a very as we go through friday so still very heavy working its way now into northeast india and working its way further off but of course very heavy amounts of rain are going to continue to come down with this system it'll continue care is way further east as we go through saturday by then we really should have some much but it conditions across much of bangladesh across into west bengal as well so that will help obviously with the cleanup effort but then the system continues to move up to the north and east lose another wave coming through which actually will just get pulled along with a system so we're going to see some very heavy rain particularly about pouring into putin's so lots of areas to bangladesh that all these of india easily picking up another $250.00 millimeters over the next 3 days some areas could pick up as much as $300.00 millimeters obviously we are still watching that but elsewhere india but a warning is in place now for the intense heat across central states in particular pradesh we've got temperatures rising to $45.00 degrees celsius now this is fairly typical for this time of year it's ahead of the southwest monsoon which really

officially begins to push through sri lanka into southern portions of india towards the end of may so not far away nickels officially the star is the 1st of june but ahead of the stalls here we have some very very hot weather in place the rains of course needed but also it will help with those temperatures thanks very much jenny well still ahead on al-jazeera we look at the different approaches taken by big pharma and trying to find a vaccine for the qur'an a virus and in sport the challenges facing women for. paula's at a time when all top league top level leagues have been suspended. when a military coup overthrew chile's marxist president one stadium's became prisms and the hunters sole objective was absolute control one man publicly refused to accept dictatorship episode 4 of football rebels expose the life of carlos caselli. the

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there again i'm this dossier and that's remind you about top stories this hour the chinese government is introducing national security laws for hong kong in the annual parliament session following months of mass protests against beijing that's according to state media and this comes as china's biggest political gathering of the year the national people's congress begins in beijing. cleanup operations have begun in eastern india and bangladesh off to the most powerful site trying to hit the bay of bengal in 20 years at least 84 people have been killed thousands of homes destroyed and power supplies cut to many communities. and another 2000000 people have filed for unemployment benefits in the u.s. just in the past week the labor department says more than 38000000 people have now lost their jobs since cubs were imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus and much. well the race is on to find

a vaccine for the corona virus and scientists across the world that experimenting with different approaches as they search for a breakthrough u.s. is working on a vaccine that directly injects genetic material into a patient in order to get the immune system to produce the correct antibodies it's now reported some positive results on healthy volunteers a project in britain is taking a different approach the oxford prototype exposes subjects to a weakened version of the common cold that's been combined with the virus and china has approved at least 4 possible vaccines for clinical trials now even before the pandemic the chinese were already investing billions with the aim of becoming a leader and pharmaceuticals and biotechnology well we can now speak to derek gather and he is a viral edges teaching in the biomedical and life sciences department at lancaster university in the u.k. and he joins us now right i'll start with the question that everyone wants the answer to you keep hearing that there's been progress made here and there where are

we at with vaccine development. there are some vaccines that have almost been to the fees to clinical trial process so we start with this one which effectively asks the question is is the vaccine cif and there's quite a lot of what you can do. to see that it's see if a man walks and you can also defeats one tribe's insurance and we have horses in some practice scenes and injected into humans perceive the trunks and then a space through which has the question does it actually work is it is if acacias in preventing the disease and we've started to see the beginnings of some theories to try was particularly for instance the virus scene was tried in monkeys in mechanic monkeys to see whether it was a fictitious or not however in order to be licensed for use in humans we would need to face true trial in human volunteers and there was the kind of trials that we're going to start see starting in the near future i mean given those human trials

there are obviously ethical issues about rushing through that process derek how is that being navigated especially given the edge and see if need. well normally we would have one set of volunteers that would receive the vaccine and then another set of volunteers to receive the placebo so they'd just been injected into salty water that would be done double play into the neither we nor the receiving vaccine or placebo then we would follow them through for a year of school to see when they develop the disease over that period of time and then at the end of the year or so trial statisticians would get together and decide whether the vaccine was more effective than placebo but given that we don't we don't have time for that no there are some potential workarounds that could be applied at one of them is that there might be some sort of measures of unity one of which is the virus neutralization taste so if those that turn j. to the vaccine can produce antibodies which will bind to the virus in the

laboratory and rein to the virus incapable of a border tree infection then that might be taken as an indication that the virus probably would work if we were to do a longer term clinical trial another alternative is the challenge experiment so that the challenge expended is the one that's really a thickly difficult because we have to teach volunteers and they have to agree to receive the virus so after they've had the vaccination and we wait a month or so for the response to the 2 are and then they will be given a dose of the virus a year usually by nice with respect to treat minus and then over the next a true weeks to a month who would see which ones development disease and which ones don't know of course because this virus has such a high did 3 and it seems like it's probably about one percent is difficult to know to go into the hope that we had earlier on in their treatment it was more like one in a 1000 it doesn't look like more like one in 100 it means there would be

a small but definite risk of death to the participants in the in the challenge experiment of the sort of the way to get right now perhaps would be to use individuals that were laced lightly to have come so younger people people who were the ditties people who were to be so forth and therefore we might be able to minimize the risk of accidental death shooting that these 2 derek gatherer ever ologist from lancaster university in the u.k. great to get out of their. pleasure. well brazil's government is sanctioning the use of an anti malarial drug to treat corona virus despite a lack of evidence that it actually works present triable sonora support for the drug has caused tensions within his health ministry where military personnel have now been appointed to keep posts brazil has the 3rd largest number of infections weald wide and its health system is struggling to cope last in america at a time you see in human reports. brazil is now latin america's ground 0 with

coated 1000 infections spreading faster than anywhere else and president bush for not all has responded by getting his new health minister to approve the use of hydroxy chloroquine controversial anti-malaria drug is untested for treating coronavirus and can have serious even fatal side effects. but president bush so not all sense is 93 year old mother has a box by her bed. i prescribe it to all my supporters and give those left wingers to buy you know. he's referring to a soft drink popular among the poor are not his last health minister resigned because he refused to greenlight the use of hydroxy clora plane but his interim replacement a retired general who's not a doctor has had no problem following orders or fact he's just named 14 more members of the military to key health ministry positions brazilian epidemiology just dr julie valley badal says he's extremely concerned. indiscriminate use of

couric is dying tourists what is happening here is more political than scientific do you think that the president is militarizing the public health system though he said it's sad to see that the government is throwing science aside and that it is indeed militarizing one of the most important ministries in any country especially during a pandemic. with more than 800000 deaths and rising a group of the. opposition deputies have submitted impeachment against bill so noddle accusing him of crimes against public health among the other cases the way he's managed the pandemic is putting brazilian lives at risk promoting crowds and close contact that increases infections and or tuesday more than 1100 people died in 24 hours and the president insists on using a drug that has no scientific evidence the president himself doesn't know the difference between a republican and absolute monarchy. right now only supporters who are out on the

streets demonstrating what should critics decide to come out of their self-imposed porn team to call for the president's ouster as brazilians have successfully done before his days in office could well be numbered you see in human al-jazeera. well the current virus pandemic is also devastation in the tourism industry worldwide airports are empty as hotels and tourist attractions remain shot she numbers of jobs are at risk as countries work out how to safely reopen and restart pumping cash into their economies now the world tourism organization says more than a 1000000000 fewer trips are expected this year lockdowns of also closed famous attractions such as the taj mahal in india the economic toll there is staggering 38000000 indians face unemployment in the near collapse of the tourism and hospitality industry while the aviation industry isn't and during its worst crisis

in history with passenger demand down by 90 percent in the u.s. and europe that's already cause $32000.00 job cuts and airlines in europe which accounts for hoth of the global tourism markers for spain and greece are looking to reopen for tourism this summer that across europe the entire sector is preparing for a tough season while some restrictions are being is it's expected to take until next year for the number of foreign visitors to rebound he is out of there as natasha butler in paris on the struggle that the french government is facing to balance economic news. with public health. driving a vintage to c.v. car is both a passion and a business for yet but a coronavirus crisis has put the brakes on his tool company in paris he hopes it is some countries begin to ease knockdowns and travel restrictions tourists will return to the city without them his business may struggle to survive work more or less with tories for in your tourist former europe and us. it's really hard to work

hard he was persian said don't do really that's kind of tour. paris is famous monuments are shot so a cafes restaurants and hotels like this one a knock shari'a way sice in the center of the city it opened less than a year ago the managing director says the financial impact of convict 19 is the worst she's experienced in her 25 years in hospitality i mean normally in this period there in july and august for example we have a lot of people from the middle east from from dubai from riyadh but the problem now we can say that we have totally lost 2020 because there is no doubt that the business for not coming back i mean strongly coming back before 2021 paris is one of the world's most visited cities tourism one of its main industry so reopening and reviving the sector is vital for its economy but doing that safely

when the health crisis isn't over is a huge challenge paris is not alone in this low it is global world so every capital every city i've got the same challenges actually so i'm pretty sure that we will all be committed to have the same safety measures everywhere and some of paris's smallest museums have been limited to reopen only 10 visitors at a time are allowed in the committee foundation social distancing isn't forced mosques are mandatory but the new rules haven't dissuaded. for her it was essential to reopen. again when asked to show anything again and the author culture should be that the french government has yet to decide when borders hotels restaurants and cafes will fully reopen last week the prime minister announced a more the 19 $1000000000.00 tourism rescue plan he said saving the industry is a national priority but so is safeguarding people's health it's

a fine balance for everyone but equally when his call to tell what's around the corner with such a bottle of al-jazeera iris. well bullet patty is the president of the wild tourism forum institution he joins us now from istanbul bullet just how bad is the damage and is it possible for the industry is ever recover from such a blow hello natasha so actually the main problem i mean they did because of the coronavirus pandemic is $2.00 trillion dollars in globally and those unfortunately $110000000.00 people lost their jobs during this coroner liars on the mic so actually the numbers show that it's not it's well not too easy to cover back i mean to to come the numbers 421000 numbers as it international international tourists so this is this is actually the tourism industry have never faced like this pandemic before i mean the we have 911 attack we have like the sars i mean the sox virus

and we have lots of crisis but this pandemic is totally different than the i mean the the others that we've faced before so it's a huge damage in all economies bullet as you were saying there we've seen such huge job losses will some of those return as things begin to open up again. actually the thing is now the countries are going more i mean the more quite so because they are covering. if you if the if you compare the 2 or 3 months before so actually but the problem is now we are covering 20 or 30 percent so it's not enough for to cover all the tourism industry so but did the thing is actually we are focusing 4 or 5 field forecast to recolor back and the numbers will come minimum for 4 or 5 years after this year and of course the numbers again i mean this isn't just about travel restrictions right it's also about trust do you think people will want to travel even as things began opening up again. so the problem is here is that

they'll get travel restriction is a problem but the main problem is the psychology off the amended traveler so for example if everywhere is shouting and everybody is saying that ok social distancing so that travelers aren't thinking that when you are touching when you are in a hotel and you are touching a gentleman or when you are touching a receptionist so they are to me one of the this has a crown the widest so i can be effective so it will take to change the mindset of people today i mean it too much time for example right now a lot so foretells in you stumble in london and trump luskin p.c. that putting lots of social distancing i mean the signals ok when you are walking you know restaurant so that they are showing the signs but the thing is the main problem is it will take too much time to change the psychology of people. to beating the corner liars but could we potentially see a boost in domestic tourism here as as people decide to holiday that potentially

closer to home could that soften the blow. sure actually the thing is the domestic travel will continue and but i mean that in turkey in a european union in arab region middle east for example we did that in a strong communication with the they hiked a majority in saudi arabia so they are planning to organize a bubble travel bubble between the i mean the middle east countries so it will create a huge i mainly organization i mean the people's will travel from saudi to dubai you dubai to qatar but end of the day you know lots of airlines we have and the these airlines are directly reliable to international tourism and this moment for example if the peoples are not traveling from us to china or china to europe so it's creating a huge damage in tourism industry again for example the last of the airlines i mean the day that till now 352000000000 u.s.d. and you see lots of airlines are going to bankruptcy so this will create a huge problem in the near future for the tourism industry and also for example

come back to pakistan yesterday with the people guarding the minister of tourism week but which conversation with him but what we see everybody is preparing their country for 2021 so we can say that $20.00 to $20.00 is mainly the local tourists but that the product will be more local localized but 2021 people feel more confident for the tourism industry actually invalid bochy that the president of the well tourism foreign institute great to get your insights on al-jazeera thank you israelis are celebrating jerusalem day that's the anniversary of israeli forces occupying easter recess and 1967 our previous matches by set has increased tensions between jews and palestinians that this year's event a scaled down because of coronavirus restrictions well we can speak now to our correspondent herefore said he's an occupied east jerusalem harry talk us through the significance of this march today. well it's

hard to convey just how different it is from what happens every year usually at least $50000.00 marches those largely from settler communities from the religious right and from right wing elements in jewish society will march through the very alleyways of the old city there will congregate at places like damascus gate very much in the center of muslim palestinian occupied east jerusalem and march through and it does cause tensions shops are shut and shuttered there's a lot of pretty triumphalist shouting and singing and flag waving this time around there's been a real downscaling by the authorities it is because of the coronavirus epidemic that is being limited to some 700 people who will gather not in the start of it at least inside the old city where we are here but in places like the other side of

jaffa gate there is a square on the other side here there are reports at least that they will also in some places be on the ramparts on the old walls above the city before walking through and congregating some $450.00 of them at the western wall around 7 pm local time where they will end this the proceedings for the day but this is a hugely downscaled from what we usually see are a force that in east jerusalem he is across all those developments for us thank you . still ahead on al-jazeera. and sports councils a while couple guys they say they're focused on making sure that affordable for fans fire will be here that story. business leaders want to buy a brush pile. from

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it is now time to force in his fire this as he had thank you so much the head of cattle his world cup organizing committee is vowed to keep the event affordable for fans as an alpha what he says not pricing out supporters has become more important due to the economic impact of coronavirus organizers say they'll do all they can to help supporters travel to the tournaments catarrh is getting ready to host the 32 nation of that in november and december of 2022. he always said from day one this will be. the one everybody wants to complete of to be able to go you know you demonstrate that actually close to cook. lives turns from all the different clothes to ensure that the major to. know is still committed to ensuring that we create

a balance between the floor of the world cup or the price range of $1.00 who works for close arms and at the same time restraints as well as function service which. will be you know this he joins us now to look. at those that this is trying to rebuild together if not more than ever you know there is. only. 2020. behind us all of us celebrates united. so it's ellen has taken another step towards firing at attorney general me caliber he was in charge of a corruption investigation into football's world governing body fifa a parliamentary panel has voted to open an impeachment process against the 54 year old the judicial commission accused lopper of a serious violation of his duties a fraud trial relating to the 2006 world cup collapse last month. fifa is working

with one of the game's most powerful player unions to help the women's game through the coronavirus pandemic 5th pro has just published a report outlining the challenges female players are facing it's aiming to protect the rights and working conditions of players at a time when all top level women's football has been suspended. represents the interests of more than $65000.00 male and female footballers based in countries all over the world their most recent research revealed that close to 80 percent of the women's players they spoke to doubted their clubs had a clear strategy for growth while one in 4 countries recognized by still don't have a women's national team and earlier we spoke to amanda vandervoort of 5th pro she told us what needs to be done to help the women's game through the upheaval caused by coronavirus. there certainly is a concern that women should have equal access and opportunity to be tested and

you know have a security and peace of mind that they're safe and healthy and looked after when when they return to place so i think the opportunity is is in making the decision making the decisions now so that women's football can. not only survive but but exceed expectations when we come back so it's about it's it's today about making the right decision on behalf of the players and behalf of the survival of the game over the long term and certainly if if leagues are returning to play certainly there should be safety protocols in place for for the women as much as the men there's always been the need but there's more of an opportunity to have this conversation about about things like labor standards and women's football and the need for the need for basic labor standards when when we return things like contracts for players things like. tracking and ensuring safe workloads if the game

improves because players are given the opportunity to be elite athletes then we'll see the commercial investment and the sponsor investment and attendance and interests continue to rise and increase. australia's national rugby league competition is still on course to resume a week thursday a revised schedule has been announced with game set to be played at empty stadiums venues for the opening 9 rounds were confirmed all matches to take place at one of 6 crowns teams may be able to play matches at their home stadiums if coronavirus restrictions are easily during the season. but if you take into account the inflows of form injuries you take into account that you know we're playing in slightly different stadiums. one thing remains a common this will be a tough competition for all 16 teams and you know what i think this is it will be more than other years given all that we've been through to get to getting back up and running. and there's no sign of social distance to the north america's most

popular motor sport series nascar this was the 2nd race back since the kobe 1000 disruption denny hamlin won the rain shortened race in darlington north carolina ellen's teammate kyle busch finished 2nd after taking chase elliott out of the race things up pretty heated between the 2 drivers but she though did take the blame for the crash and try to apologize. they're upset they're mad i'm not just going to fix it and we're going to have the ice cream the mansion and. they're going to get on it and there are repercussions that i'm sure i'm going to have later on down the road. ok and that is all your support for now nesta see a back to you thanks very much for well climate change is having an unusual effects near the south pole by turning pulse of antarctica green rooms of al. the world's most barren continent a splash of color rising temperatures have made the spread so prolific it can be seen from space more than $1600.00 growths have been identified over 2 square

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